On 8/27/2013 13:20, Petr Janda wrote: >>> Personally, I think smf manifests being in XML(i dislike) may be a >>> problem with many users who >>> are not used to reading and writing XML files. >> >> >> That's one of the things I hated on SMF! >> But I guess the configuration can be easily translated from XML to >> text and vice-versa. > > C'mon, XML isn't that bad :)
No, it isn't. I don't know where all this anti-XML sentiment came from, but it's certainly fashionable lately. Also, really there should be a front-end tool for designing SMF manifests, there's nothing saying it has to be written directly. I'm guessing there are already such tools. > But I don't see why, SMF couldn't support other types of documents such > as JSON or YAML. Because JSON and YAML can't take the place of XML. They do a minor subset and are not suitable for SMF manifests. Also it's work that somebody has to do versus porting proven code. John
